It was for Keda to take away what he wrongly believes is his shadow - Keda's more feminine nature that he tries to hide and reject for the group's approval. The cat's way of making a sudden snatch offered a strong message. By losing a member, it drove home Tau's lesson earlier that their survival is not guaranteed. He died quickly in the struggle and was buried the next day. Because Keda refused, Nature can grant another opportunity, but under harsher conditions the next time.Īs the group gathered around the campfire at night, a saber-toothed cat made a quick lunge for Keda's friend. When you see a boar in the wild, it's an outer message that you must learn to face your fears with courage, assertiveness and confrontation. In a firm, yet loving way, Tau responded by saying, "You take a life to give life to your tribe.Life is for the strong. When Keda was ordered by his father to kill the boar, he refused. They followed the stone cairns and stars that served as markers along the route to the hunting grounds. He operated more from his hyper-masculine ways that is about domination over Nature and dominating Keda's sensitive nature.
Tau was intent on initiating his son into manhood. Keda's mother pointed out to her husband that Keda "leads with his heart, not his spear." It was too painful for Tau to watch, so the beatings were cut short. Tau's only son, Keda, an adolescent, had to prove he was worthy of joining the expedition by fashioning a sharp spear from rock, then endure hard blows by the men.
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Welcome to "Conscious Movie Reviews." I'm your host Joy Davis and here to review the action and adventure drama, "Alpha" that's dedicated to my loving animal companion, Bodhi.ĭuring the Upper Paeleo-lithic Age, a group of hunter-gatherers, headed by Tau, prepared for their annual trek through the Sacred Path. Warning: Spoilers within the Presentation A Struggle Between the Mind and Heart
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Named Alpha, the wolf chose to stay by Keda's side out of loyalty - teaching him how to bring out his animal instincts for survival in the wild and get back home. Instead, Keda gave the injured wolf some shelter, food and warmth. When a pack of wolves run after him to attack, Keda fought back, hesitating to kill their injured leader. He managed to survive by diving from the ledge to rapid waters below, leaving him temporarily disabled. Grieving over their loss, the tribe left him for dead, then headed back home. At the hunting ground, a bison threw Keda over the cliff's edge to fall onto a ledge that put him out of the group's reach. As hunter-gatherers prepared for their annual hunt for bison, Keda had to earn his place to join the group, headed by his father, Tau.
Synopsis: Selected by "Conscious Movie Reviews," "Alpha" is an action and adventure drama set during the last Ice Age in Europe.
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Note 2: The film and the theatre-piece/film combo are both available to watch and/or download for free on it's website: movie.Hidden Meanings Behind the "Alpha" Movie (Spoilers) Reviewed by Joy Davis Note: the film is often screened in conjunction with live theater elements played out in front of it, in an avant-garde mix of artistic media. That said, I found the first and last 10 minutes quite strong, and the film grew on 2nd viewing, it's capturing of the sense of being in the middle of a stifling nightmare pretty darn disturbing and effective. While I admired it's techniques and ideas, some ideas are too heavy handed and/or repetitive. It's deadly serious, arguably too much so for it's own good at moments. But this film isn't playful in the way 'Eraserhead' is. There's a David Lynch sort of vibe, especially 'Eraserhead', in the surreal imagery and sound, and in the refusal to play by the usual rule of narrative. The film uses sound to great effect, and intersperses hallucinatory bits of Alpha's childhood memories throughout the film. And while she loses all she thought was important, in some ways she also finds parts of her humanity that were long dormant. The rest of the film observes Alpha's attempt to survive physically, spiritually, psychologically and emotionally, fighting slowly going mad in her 'Waiting for Godot' like exile. But as is so often the case in dictatorships, no one is safe, and soon, Alpha is dragged into the desert and abandoned there, sitting under a tree that holds the rotting corpse of her brother. Alpha just wants to protect her 'safe' life. Gorgeously photographed, this surreal, experimental tone poem of a film is very loosely based on Sophocles' "Antigone", but where Antigone willingly took on the authorities to mourn and bury her brother in spite of their edict forbidding it, this much less initially heroic modern variation of the heroine turns her brother away as he's being hunted down by frightening gas masked soldiers of the dictatorship.
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